Word: rulers
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With a sudden surge, the members of East Germany's Volkskammer (People's Chamber) sprang to their feet. As the country's Communist ruler, spike-bearded Walter Ulbricht, 73, looked on, the 434 Deputies thus signaled their unanimous approval of a new law that aims at making the division of Germany a spiritual as well as a physical reality. Into East Germany's law books last week went a statute giving the 17 million people under Ulbricht's rule a new citizenship in "the first peace-loving, democratic, socialist German state...
Simon's Skepticism. Ever since the 1940s, when two-thirds of his family estates in Czechoslovakia were expropriated, Liechtenstein's publicity-shy ruler has been discreetly selling off his $150 million art inheritance, consisting of more than 1,500 paintings. Some 30 to 40 Rembrandts, Rubenses and other old masters have disappeared from the vaults of the royal castle at Vaduz only to reappear, with a minimum of publicity, on museum walls from Ottawa to London. Unquestionably the most valuable painting in the Prince's collection was the Leonardo Ginevra...
Died. Mir Osman AH Khan Bahadur, 84, Nizam of Hyderabad, Eastern potentate and ruler of Hyderabad's 16 million, said to be the" world's richest man, with about $2 billion in gold, jewelry and art treasures, until Indian troops ended his rule in 1948, forcing him to accept a meager $900,000 yearly allowance, most of which he spent to support courtiers, bodyguards, concubines, servants and some 2,000 legitimate and illegitimate Nizam children, while he himself lived like a miser as a matter of personal choice, reputedly even darning his old socks; of influenza; in King...
...system may actually be a sign of belligerence, a signal that its builders are preparing to make the first strike, while getting ready to ride out the U.S. response. Besides, the cold logic of deterrence works only when the opponent is capable of understanding it. What if the uneasy ruler of a new nuclear power were to make an irrational decision that he had more to gain than to lose from an attack on the U.S., whatever the risk of retaliation...
...back is still straight and his command over Ethiopia as firm as ever. He has put down three coup attempts in the past six years (for one of which four army officers are now on trial in Addis Ababa). He is, in fact, as close to an absolute ruler as the century will allow. Although he has permitted a Parliament to function for the past twelve years, he alone has the power to choose his Prime Minister. He regularly plays shum-shir-the Ethiopian equivalent of musical chairs-to prevent his top ministers from gaining too much power...